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Adaptive Design vs. Responsive Web Design: RWD Pundits Come Full Circle
Jan 13th, 2017
Luca Passani, CTO @ScientiaMobile, January 2017
I had not blogged for some time, but listening to a conversation that involved Ethan Marcotte and Karen McGrane the other day inspired me to hit the company web log with a new post. The reason for this is because I heard something that I consider big. Very big.
Read MoreAre 3 Image Sizes Enough for Responsive Web Design Sites?
Aug 19th, 2016
The answer is: if you care about mobile performance and payload, then you need a better solution than only 3 image sizes. We evaluated over 53 million requests for images from 1.6 million distinct urls (see our MOVR report).
Read MoreIs Your Responsive Design Working? Google Analytics Will Tell You
Aug 18th, 2016
Responsive web design has become the dominant method of developing and designing websites. It makes it easier to think “mobile first” and to create a website that is viewable on mobile devices.
Read MoreAre You Ready For Google’s Mobile-Friendliness Rankings? Lessons From The Top 10,000 Sites
Apr 19th, 2015
April 21, 2015 is the date when Google starts updating their search algorithms to consider “mobile friendliness” in the ranking of sites. This means that site owners who have not implemented a strategy for adapting their site and content for mobile devices will be ranked lower than sites that are optimized.
Read MoreWURFL.js Business Edition: At the Intersection of JavaScript and Enterprise
Mar 26th, 2015
It was over one year ago that ScientiaMobile announced the WURFL.js Community Edition under the umbrella of the WURFL.io initiative. Believe me. WURFL.js was (and still is) a huge success, just as its siblings,the MOVR report and WIT, the WURFL Image Tailor, are.
Read MoreIntroducing WIT: the WURFL Image Tailor
Jun 13th, 2014
Resizing images is not a new concept by any stretch of the imagination. Those who, like me, have been involved with the mobile web since the WAP era, are very familiar with the problem of not sending 200kb pictures to phones that could only handle 10kb XHTML-MP pages.
Read MoreReport from PHP Conference 2013 in Munich Germany: RWD Keynote and HipHop for PHP
Nov 3rd, 2013
The thing about Hip-Hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
–Barack Obama
Virtual Capabilities and Filters: Introducing WURFL API 1.5
Oct 8th, 2013
WURFL and Responsive Web Design (RWD)
Feb 19th, 2013
Pretend for a moment that you’re working as a front-end developer.
(If you’re already a front-end developer, well, pretend you’re also wearing a pirate hat.)
— Ethan Marcotte, Responsive Web Design, page 17
BDConf and Exposing WURFL Capabilities to JavaScript
Sep 28th, 2012
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
– Leonardo Da Vinci (disputed)
Important Note (April 2014): If you are interested in using WURFL from Javascript, you may want to check out WURFL.io (or this blog post).
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